PT-2025-17727 · Unknown · Spring Security

Jonas Robl · Published 2025-04-22 · Updated 2026-01-23 · CVE-2025-22234

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Spring Security (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue introduces a username enumeration vector. It affects the BCryptPasswordEncoder's maximum password length, which breaks timing attack mitigation.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Protection Mechanism Failure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-208

CWE-693

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-05515

CVE-2025-22234

GHSA-VQXH-445G-37FC

Affected Products

Spring Security

References · 20

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-05515 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22234 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vqxh-445g-37fc · Vendor Advisory
• https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22234 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security · Note
• https://twitter.com/UndercodeNews/status/1915671745136050394 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/autumn_good_35/status/1915305232197963788 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/herodevs/status/1916862725575037030 · Twitter Post
• ❌ https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security.git · Note, Deleted
• https://reddit.com/r/java/comments/1k72zkn/spring_security_cve202522234_on · Reddit Post
• https://reddit.com/r/OSS_EOL/comments/1k6z3jz/medium_severity_spring_security_cve202522234 · Reddit Post
• https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1k6w491/spring_security_vulnerability_new_cve202522234 · Reddit Post
• https://twitter.com/_cvereports/status/2014490838135455855 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2014577022698471552 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/defcon_news/129844 · Telegram Post